Financial Services Guide

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This Financial Services Guide (FSG) was prepared on 10 March 2004 and issued by Huntleys' Investment Information Pty Ltd. This FSG is designed to provide you with important information prior to subscribing or purchasing our information and research. If you need any more information than is contained in this document please contact us. You have the right to ask us about our charges, the type of advice we will provide you, and what you can do if you have a complaint about our services.

This Financial Services Guide ("FSG") is one of three documents you may be provided by an organisation which holds an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFS). The other documents are:

A Statement of Advice (SOA) which is provided whenever we provide you with any personal advice, which takes into account your objectives, financial situation and needs. The Statement of Advice will contain the advice, the basis on which it is given and information about fees, commissions and associations which may have influenced the provision of the advice.

A Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) is provided in the event we make a recommendation to acquire a particular financial product other than securities. This document must contain information about the particular product, which will enable you to make an informed decision in relation to the purchase of that product.

Important: HII only provides only general securities advice and does not offer any financial products for sale.. Therefore we will only be providing you with an FSG and not the other documents.

Huntleys' Investment Information Pty. Ltd. (HII)
ABN: 95 090 665 544
Australian Financial Services Licence Number: 240892

HII is a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc.
ABN 83 062 096 342

Principal Place of Business
Level 36, Australia Square
264 George St
Sydney, NSW 2000

Postal Address:
Locked Bag 25
Royal Exchange
NSW 1225

Tel No: 1800 03 44 55
Fax: 02 9475 4196
Email: support@aspecthuntley.com.au

HII is licensed to offer you the following services:

Provide general financial product advice for the following classes of financial products to retail and wholesale clients:

• Deposit and payment products
• Derivatives
• Debentures, stocks or bonds issued or proposed to be issued by a government
• Interests in managed investment schemes, including investor directed portfolio services
• Retirement Savings accounts
• Securities
• Superannuation

We currently provide this advice through our newsletter publications and our websites. We do not provide any facilities for buying or selling securities.

Please note that all our publications provide general advice only. This is an important consideration and means that the advice has not been prepared by taking into account the particular investment objectives, financial situation and particular needs of any individual investors. It is a general information service only. You should assess whether it is appropriate in light of your own individual investment objectives, financial situation and particular needs. If necessary, you should consult with a licensed investment adviser or dealer in securities such as a stockbroker before making an investment decision.

HII operates a subscription based business. When you subscribe you will be required to pay a fixed fee according to the length of the subscription period. No other fees or commissions are charged on our products.

All employees of HII receive a salary. They may also be entitled to a performance based bonus. Sales and marketing staff are also paid commissions on subscriptions they sell.

HII is independent of any financial product provider and values this independence in helping us to make objective assessments of securities.

Our research analysts are guided by a code of conduct and disclosure for their own share trading activities. The key elements of our policy are:

• Analysts may not trade against a recommendation at any time without the prior written consent of a director of HII
• Analysts may not trade in the shares of a company 5 days ahead or after the day of publication of a recommendation.
• All analysts are required to report their stock holdings and any changes to them. This information will be included in each newsletter and online.

Our full policy can be found here

No, HII only provides general advice, and has no knowledge of your personal situation.

We assign a risk weighting to our recommendations. These are general in nature, however. You should consult your own financial advisor if you are unsure of either your risk profile or the suitability of a recommendation to your own situation.

We keep name, address, phone and e-mail details for the purpose of fulfilling requested products and services. When Subscribers register online to receive our products they may indicate whether they wish to receive additional information and marketing on other HII or Aspect Huntley products. At any time a subscriber may change, remove or alter the records held by HII or elect not to receive any materials from HII or affiliated companies. Personal details held may include name, contact details (address, phone/fax, email) and payment information (credit card and/or bank details). Aspect Huntley Customer Service can assist with any of question concerning your records.

If you have any complaint about the service provided to you, you should take the following steps:

• Contact us and tell us about your complaint. We will seek to resolve your complaint quickly and fairly. If your complaint is not resolved within a reasonable time by one of our staff, please contact in writing the Managing Director, Aspect Huntley, directly.
• If the complaint cannot be satisfied to your satisfaction you have the right to complain to the Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS). FICS is the dispute resolution scheme authorised to deal with complaints in relation to investment advice. HII is a member of this service. They can be contacted on 1300 780 808. or at www.fics.asn.au

© Copyright Huntleys' Investment Information Pty. Limited (HII) (a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc.), . All rights reserved. Australian Financial Services Licence no. 240892. No material may be reproduced, except as allowed by the Copyright Act, without the prior written approval of HII. Some of the material provided by HII is copyright and is published under licence from ASX Operations Pty Limited ACN 004 523 782 ("ASXO").

DISCLAIMER: While the above-mentioned advice and information are based on information, which HII consider reliable, its accuracy and completeness cannot be guaranteed. This report is made without consideration of any specific clients investment objectives, financial situation or particular needs. Accordingly, the client should, before acting on the advice, consider the appropriateness of the advice, having regard to the client's objectives, financial situation and needs. Those acting upon such information do so entirely at their own risk. For a copy of HII's Financial Services Guide, please go to http://www.aspecthuntley.com.au/FSG or phone HII on (02) 9276 4544 to request a copy.

DISCLOSURE: The directors and associated persons or entities of HII may have an interest in the securities discussed in this report.